Fragmented strategies → Omeka S
University of Cape Town (Ibali)
The University of Cape Town launched 'Ibali' (isiXhosa for 'story'), a university-wide digital-collections showcase built on Omeka S and a dedicated IIIF media server. The platform's strength is linked open data: collections are described with metadata standards and connected semantically to other resources online, improving cultural-heritage discovery, while the IIIF server delivers deep-zoom viewing, side-by-side comparison, crowdsourced annotation and in-line metadata display. Positioned as a GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) platform, Ibali brought UCT's previously scattered digital assets into one open-source, standards-led home. A significant South African example of a centralised Omeka S and IIIF showcase.
Original source
Ibali — Digital Collections UCT
University of Cape Town Libraries
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